Legal Definition and Related Resources of District Council

Urban and rural district councils were created by the Local Government Act, 1894

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District Council in Historical Law

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District council in Law Enforcement

Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of district council.

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See Also

• Law Enforcement Officer
• Policeman
• Law Enforcement Agency

Further Reading

• district council in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
• district council in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis

English Legal System: District Council

In the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of District Council : A *local authority whose area is a *district. A district council has certain exclusive responsibilities (e.g. housing and local planning) and shares others (e.g. recreation, town and country planning) with the council of the county to which the district belongs. Some responsibilities (e.g. education and the personal social services) belong to the district council if the district is metropolitan, but to the county council if it is not. If a district has the style of borough, its council is called a borough council and its chairman the mayor. The *Local Government Commission for England began work in 1992 on a review of local authorities with a view to establishing unitary (single-tier) authorities (*unitary authority; single-tier authority). This has led to wider powers for district councils and to some amalgamations and boundary revision.